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LÄÄ05MK24HKI-SH Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3021

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

05.02.2024 - 10.03.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Elina Pettinen

Groups

  • A52sh
  • 05.02.2024 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ05 / Aloitusinfo ja luento
  • 12.02.2024 09:00 - 11:45, LÄÄ05 / Luento
  • 26.02.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ05 / Lääkehoidon tentti ja lääkelaskenta
  • 01.03.2024 12:00 - 14:15, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskut, uusinta
  • 05.03.2024 14:15 - 15:30, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskut, uusinta 2

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within child and adolescent nursing
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common child and adolescent diseases and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-supervision to children and adolescents and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics